Is Your Website Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired? National Law Review, February 1, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice is taking notice of the increase of Plaintiffs’ firms sending out demand letters warning that if businesses do not enter into a settlement agreement and agree to use their consultant to make the website accessible and…
Cameron Spark, CNIB, September 30, 2015 CNIB has taken mainstream GPS navigation to a new level of accessibility for people who are blind or partially sighted. It now offers indoor navigation by pairing its technology with iBeacons that are located throughout CNIB’s national office at 1929 Bayview Avenue in Toronto. These devices alert users to…
David Lepofsky, Toronto Star, Activist for reforms for the rights of people with disabilities, August 19, 2015 The ParaPan Am games had great potential to tear down stereotypes that hold back the 1.8 million Ontarians with disabilities, writes David Lepofsky. Yet poor marketing meant that half of the tickets never sold. Blind computer users like…
Christopher Reynolds Toronto Star, August 14, 2015 A blind computer software engineer from Toronto is giving eyes to those who can’t see. David Best, a former IBM web developer, has just helped usher in the first pilot system in Canada created specifically to help visually impaired people – nearly 200,000 in Ontario alone – navigate…
Christina Stevens, Senior Reporter Global News, June 19, 2015 The official Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games app is not accessible to those who are visually impaired, according to advocates for people with disabilities. They said it wouldn’t have been difficult to implement the helpful feature directly into the design phase of the Toronto 2015…
DRAGGING ITS FEETIN TERMS OF ACCESSIBILITY, SAY VISUALLY IMPAIRED RESIDENTS
Tyler Brownbridge, The Windsor Star, June 16, 2015 Windsor is a particularly challenging city to navigate for the visually impaired, says newcomer Rebecca Blaevoet. Every time she rides the bus, she approaches the front with assistance from her seeing-eye dog, then asks the driver to alert her upon arrival at her stop. What she could…
